The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-02-26
News of the Week.

Mrs. William MaXey was burned to death
and her husband fatally burned by the ex.
plosion of lamp in Litchfeld, Illinois, on
Saturday night.
Rev. William Cooper. D. D., a prominent
clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
died in Philadelphia, Pa, on Saturday, in the
SD year of his age.
A stage coach which carried $4,000 ex-
press money, was attacked by highwaymen
near Craeters, Mexico, few days ago, but
the passengers, being armed, drove away the
robbers.
Zachariah Reynolds, aged about 60 years,
Waterman in the Treasury Department at
Washington, was killed on Saturday night by
falling through an elevator in the Treasury
building.
Gossipers in Catlin, H., have been given
food for talk by the approaching marriage of
a young lady resident to a school teacher who
whipped her so severely few years ago that
he was arrested and fined.
James Morrison, judge of election in Scran-
ton, Penna., who was arrested last Friday on
the charge of completely in the election frauds
said to have been practiced, died on Tuesday
night in the county Jail of delirium tremens.
At Scranton, Pa, on Saturday, Judge
Archbold sent the Election Board of the
Second District of the Twelfth Ward to Jail,
in default of $1,000 bail each, for tamperng
with the returns of the election on Tuesday
previous.
The house of John Baughman, aged 81
years, in Dalton, Ohio, was burned early last
Friday morning Mr.. Baughman was taken
from the burning building dead. His wife,
aged 50 years, was still living, but not ex-
pected to recover.
Fright caused the death of man near
Highland, Mich, the other day, who imagin-
ed he contracted hydrophobia while skinning
sheep KILLED at the instance of the owner
bitten by dog thought to have been suffer
ing from the dreaded malady.
Willie Wettinger, Z years of age, died at
Winfield, Long Island on Wednesday of last
week, of lockjaw. On the previous Mon
day he was running with a corn-cob in his
hand and fell; the cob entered his mouth
and one end of it passed through his cheek.
One thousand German Socialists assembled
in Chicago on Tuesday night to hear returns
from the elections in Germany. During the
intervals between kilograms, Paul Grottkau,
of Milwaukee, made speech, in which he
alternately denounced Bismarck and the ad-
ministration of Justice in America.
The silk mills of George Frost & Co., at
Paterson, New Jersey, were closed on Satur-
day evening on account of the silk dyers'
strike, and 400 hands were thrown out of en-
ployment. About 600 have been laid off at
other factories in Paterson. The dyers on
strike number 1850, making total of nearly
5000 operatives out of work.
New Zealand advices by mail to January
26th report massacre of natives in the Kim
berly District miner stole young black,
ond retaliation tho uaorOas Eillad tho min.
err and wounded his two companions. The
latter escaped, secured assistance, and pur-
sued the blacks, and out of q band of forty of
the latter all but one were shot down.
AT Bellefonte, Penna., on Tuesday morning,
while twelve brickayers were lining a stack
at Valentine furnaces, scaffold on which
they stood gave way, precipitating them to
the bottom of the stack 65 feet below. Five
of the men we're killed and two fatally injured,
the rest escaping with slighter injuries. All
the killed were from Pittsburg and unmarried.
The Director of the Mint reports that the
production of gold in the United States dur
ing the year 1886 exceeded that of any previ-
Gus year since 1880, and almost elualled the
production of that year. 1t amounted to
S35, 900, 900 in 1886 against S31 100000 in
1855, an increase of over $3,000,00 The
production of silver, as nearly as can be as
certalned, was 945jSJo,Jau,
Every one of the six daughters of grocer
named Schlecht, in New York, is said to have
eloped in turn. Annie, the eldest, ran away
when she was q years old, Amelia when she
was H. Caroline and Meta when they were
H. Adeline when she was 16, and Hortensia,
a few weeks ago, when she was u. Edward
Russell, the hero of the most recent elope-
ment, has been sent to prison for marrying a
child.
4 telegram from Danville, Illinois, says
that on Tuesday the bot water heater in Il
chair car on the Wabash road exploded,
blowing out the windows and SCATTERING both
ends of the car. The sleeping passengers
were thrown about the floor, and several of
them were severely injured. The car caught
fire from the lamps which had been shattered
and from the fire under the heater, and was
entirely destroyed.